Installing Door Casing Before Carpet

Or you may be replacing the baseboards but leaving the carpet.

Installing door casing before carpet.

Casing can be molded or flat and whether the casing legs and head meet at the top of the door in miter joints or butt joints depends partly on which you choose. Part of the series. If i m installing the hardwood i d like to go first and the trim guy can scribe his jambs. Prepping the door for casing to sit flat and for the head joint to meet well the jamb and the face of the wall need to be in plane with each other.

You don t need to. But for me as a diyer it was easier to do the base after the carpet and that way no gaps. In some cases this will not be possible since. At this point the only other difference with installing a pre hung door for a room that will be carpeted is that i keep the shims and the nails close to the floor on both sides.

Install the carpet install the carpet all the way against the wall. Honestly its more work to scribe the jambs in my opinion you basically have to set the door twice the other consideration is do you want to install the hardwood without shoe moulding. Keeping the shims and the fasteners low helps to prevent the carpet installers from moving the jambs out of position when they come along with their knee kickers. Are you talking about hanging the doors on the jamb or actually setting the entire prehung and then running casing and base.

Installing trim before the carpet is a good idea for a couple of important reasons. Door window maintenance. When installing baseboard before carpet the easiest thing to do is to install it even with the bottom edge of the drywall as previously described. A really thick shag carpet can make it difficult to judge how high to place the trim.

I set the prehung unit and then remove the door until after carpet. What i am looking to do is shim up the jamb to the desired height so that i will have 1 2 after carpet is installed and won t have to cut the doors. How to install trim before the carpet. I ve seen people reccomend both ways.